Improvement in lamp-lighting devices



UNIL-TEDSTATES y `FRANKL. CAMM, or BRooKLYNfNEW YORK.

iMPRovEMEN'rlN LAMP-LIGHTING DEvlcEs.

i .specification f'rming para of Letters Patent No.174,4l|,ldted March 7,1876; application med "i vFebruary5,1876; i"

To all *whomit may concern: 1

Beit known `that I, FRANK L. GAMM, of Brooklym Kings county, New York, have invented a new and ImprovedLamp-Lighter, of which the following is a specification: Myinveution consists of a tube fitted in the burner, so as to direct the match yup to the wick` when. insertedy from the bottomof the burner, and `provided `at the upper end with teeth,` across Whieh'the tip of the match is forced, so as to be ired by them,`the top beingl in such proximity to .the wick when so tired as toigniteit. l

Figure lisl a-sectional Velevation of a lamp with my improved lightingv attachment, and Fi ,Zsis a section taken atright anglesl to that of Fig. 1. i

A is the tube through `which the match is inserted frombelow the bottom Blof the lamp,

4thetube being fastened in the bottom and to the Wick-tube, `and also being arranged at such' inclination to the 'tube-E. that the top of the match `will emerge from the top in close proximity to the wick, and atthe end from which the tip so emerges the tube is provided with tinesteel points C, against which the tip is'so crowded by the side of the tube that it is red thereby to light the Wick. i I am aware that a match has been heretofore lighted, as, it ,approaches the wick, by passing it between a springv and a roughened plate; but the spring-is easily broken, will preventwthdrawal o fmatch Where it fails to light, and often causes it to ignite too soon. Whatl claim is- The tube C, provided with small teeth ou the inside andA at the upper end, the same being arranged with respect to the burner,` as and for the purpose specified.

FRANK L. GAMM.

Witnesses:

T. B. MosHER, ALEX. F. ROBERTS. 

